Author: Jane Schapiro
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: swiss, banks, holocaust, action, class, inside
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-10-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0299193306
ISBN-13: 9780299193300

On October 21, 1996, attorney Michael Hausfeld, with a team of lawyers, filed a class-action complaint against Union Bank of Switzerland, Swiss Bank Corporation, and Credit Suisse on behalf of Holocaust victims. The suit accused the banks of, among other things, acting as the chief financiers for Nazi Germany. Hausfeld wanted to use the suit to prove that the banks not only concealed and refused to return millions of dollars in dormant accounts, but that they acted as a conduit for looted assets and slave labor profits. Such behavior, he charged, violated the code of ethics known as customary

Author: Kenny Fries
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: lesbian, autobiographies, gay, living, memoir, remember
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2003-09-15
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0299190544
ISBN-13: 9780299190545

In this poetic, introspective memoir, Kenny Fries illustrates his intersecting identities as gay, Jewish, and disabled. While learning about the history of his body through medical records and his physical scars, Fries discovers just how deeply the memories and psychic scars run. As he reflects on his relationships with his family, his compassionate doctor, the brother who resented his disability, and the men who taught him to love, he confronts the challenges of his life. Body, Remember is a story about connection, a redemptive and passionate testimony to one man’s search for the sources of

Author: Harold Scheub
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: tales, african
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2005-03-09
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 029920944X
ISBN-13: 9780299209445

The latest work from Harold Scheub, one of the world’s leading scholars of African folktales, is the broadest collection yet assembled with tales from the entire continent of Africa, north to south. It brings together mythic, fantastic, and coming-of-age tales, some transcribed more than a hundred years ago, others dating to modern-day Africa. Scheub includes the work of storytellers from major African language groups, as well as many storytellers whose work is not often heard outside of Africa. This anthology offers a classroom-ready collection that should appeal to any scholar of Afric

Authors:James F. Crow, William F. Dove,
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: critical, historical, anecdotal, genetics, perspectives
Number of Pages: 734
Published: 2000-05-17
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 029916604X
ISBN-13: 9780299166045

Author: Jose Angel Gutierrez
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: wisconsin, studies, autobiography, cristal, lessons, chicano, militant, making
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1999-03-02
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0299159841
ISBN-13: 9780299159849

Texas, for years, was a one-party state controlled by white democrats. In 1962, a young eighteen-year-old heard the first rumblings of Chicano community organization in the barrios of Cristal. The rumor in the town was that five Mexican Americans were going to run for all five seats on the city council. But first, poor citizens had to find a way to pay the $1.75 poll tax. Money had to be raised-through bake sales of tamales, cake walks, and dances. So began the political activism of Jose Angel Gutierrez. Gutierrez’s autobiography, The Making of a Chicano Militant, is the first

Authors:Joseph A. Boone, Debra Silverman, Cindy Sarver, Karin
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: genders, generations, geographies, millennial, frontiers, queer
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2000-04-05
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0299160904
ISBN-13: 9780299160906

"Suggests the expansive-and explosive-significance of queer theory both inside and outside of the academy." -Bruce Burgett, University of Wisconsin-Madison "In their sophisticated attention not only to sexuality but also to bodies, genders, identities, and the social spaces that structure how desire plays itself out, this host of fresh voices from the queer frontier provides an encouraging preview of the shape of queer studies in the decade ahead." -Susan Stryker, Stanford University "This wide-ranging anthology takes us unexpected places and makes provocative connections. Q

Author: Elisabeth Bekers
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: african, excision, women, africa, genital, diaspora, female, anthills, american, writing, rising
Number of Pages: 274
Published: 2010-08-05
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0299234940
ISBN-13: 9780299234942

Female genital excision, or the ritual of cutting the external genitals of girls and women, is undoubtedly one of the most heavily and widely debated cultural traditions of our time. By looking at how writers of African descent have presented the practice in their literary work, Elisabeth Bekers shows how the debate on female genital excision evolved over the last four decades of the twentieth century, in response to changing attitudes about ethnicity, nationalism, colonialism, feminism, and human rights.     Rising Anthills (the title refers to a Dogon myth) analyzes works in English, Fren